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[upthera44.livejournal.com]

Could you recommend some very common and useful expressions in Russian? Unfortunately, I've never learned very many idioms and expressions and would like to learn more. For instance, things like: 

делать из мухи слона

меньше знаешь, лучше спишь

одним ударом убить двух зайцев

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[ovd-off.livejournal.com]

http://idioms.chat.ru/
Дубровин, Русские идиомы в картинках. Click the characters on left and you can find many idioms. Hope, it helps.

[ovd-off.livejournal.com]

By the way - меньше знаешь, КРЕПЧЕ спишь.

[cranberry-babe.livejournal.com]

not always
i've heard both variants :)

[inoctiluci.livejournal.com]

Here's a short list: http://www.masterrussian.com/blproverbs.shtml.

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

In the movie "Brother" the brother of the main hero uses sayings all the time.

Also, lots of what you'd call "expressions" are not really sayings, but rather quotes - from movies, speeches of politicians, etc. See, for example, quotes from "12 chairs": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtyGZqcvSSg . I guess with time they do become sayings.

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

My favorite, by Viktor Chernomyrdin (stresses in red): "Мы хотли как лчше, а получлось как всегд".

This is the human condition encapsulated. "We wanted to do good but instead we did the usual."

Idiom

[nikitapopovich.livejournal.com]

"Ученого учить - только портить".

Anthony

[bokh.livejournal.com]

A few here (http://www.slovob.org/tag/%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D1%8B/1621.php) and here (http://www.slovob.org/tag/%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B/16.php)

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I've always heard одним КАМНЕМ убить двух зайцев

Another good one - первый блин комом - close to "if at first you fail, try, try again"

[ptica.livejournal.com]

Stone is from english version:-) Two birds with one stone - одним выстрелом убить двух зайцев

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Oh, also, с волками жить, по-волчьи (sp?) выть. Someone similar to "do as the romans do," but in a much darker sense, clearly.

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

The less dark version is "В чужй монастрь со свом уством не лезь!". It's closer to the English "when in Rome..." adage, IMHO.